Re: [2.6.14-rc1] sym scsi boot hang

[Anton Blanchard]

Hi,

> OK, my fault.  Your fix is almost correct .. I was going to do this
> eventually, honest, because there's no need to unprep and reprep a
> command that comes in through scsi_queue_insert().
> 
> However, I decided to leave it in to exercise the scsi_unprep_request()
> path just to make sure it was working.  What's happening, I think, is
> that we also use this path for retries.  Since we kill and reget the
> command each time, the retries decrement is never seen, so we're
> retrying forever.
> 
> This should be the correct reversal.

Thanks James, that did the trick.

Anton
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